Tar and Novell DLT Tapes

[Darin Perusich]

you don't format backup tapes, your backup utility simply writes the 
archive to them. using your novel dlt's should be fine.

Carl Yost Jr. wrote:
> Hey guys,
>   Anyone know if Tar will be able to format the tapes we used in novell and make the tape useable by linux? We are swapping the dlt drive to the linux box :D. Any help would be greatly appreciated :D.
> 
>   Carl


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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com